Nicknamed “Elvis,” Clinton is considered a “rock star” by the left wing of the Democratic Party, perhaps because he left the White House in shambles after his presidential tour. Whitewater, Travelgate, Monicagate, and Pardongate […]

Tania is a fever, too—les voies urinaires, Café de la Liberté, Place des Vosges, bright neckties on the Boulevard Montpamasse, dark bathrooms, Porto Sec, Abdullah cigarettes, the adagio sonata Pathétique, aural amplificators, anecdotal seances, burnt sienna breasts, heavy garters, what time is it, golden pheasants stuffed with chestnuts, taffeta fingers, vaporish twilights turning to ilex, acromegaly, cancer and delirium, warm veils, poker chips, carpets of blood and soft thighs.

So for weeks the king [King Arthur] was a drudge, fetching and carrying for this surly, bullying master.

Behold! your Saviour mounts th' Olympian plain, / In endleſs glories with his Sire to reign.